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#180 - Was the Global Financial System Better Prepared for the Pandemic Than 2008?
Episode 180

#180 - Was the Global Financial System Better Prepared for the Pandemic Than 2008?

With Jason Furman and Gillian Tett

Open to Debate

May 15, 202054m 21s

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Show Notes

More than a decade ago, Lehman Brothers collapsed, and the world witnessed one of the worst financial crises in global history. In January 2019, Intelligence Squared U.S. hosted a debate on the motion “Ten Years After the Global Financial Crisis, the System Is Safer,” to assess how resilient markets would be in the future. With the emergence of a global pandemic, this has put the debater’s arguments to the ultimate test – whose claims have been vindicated by this unprecedented event?


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